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Excluding Teams from Office Deployment

Recently I received a request from one of my readers on how to tailor Office deployments and to be specific, how to exclude Teams from deployment configuration file. Let’s navigate to https://config.office.com/ from the browser. This is the place from where administrators can manage and deploy office products and subscriptions. You can see that there are two options on the page:  Create a new configuration  Import your configuration Here I am going to create a new configuration, but if you have existing configuration, you can import that too and update it based on your business needs. Once you have entered the Deployment Settings page, there are many options which need to be configured. Architecture Selection Select the architecture for which we are creating a deployment: Office Suite Selection Next is to select the Office Suite: Version Selection Next is to select the version which we want to deploy:

Acessing Azure DevOps By Using PAT

You may have come across a requirement, wherein you needed to update  Azure DevOps  objects programmatically and it is obvious that there must be some  authentication  mechanism which has to be in place. Now, there are many methods one can use to authenticate, but for this post, I’ve specifically chosen personal access token.  PAT , which is short for  Personal Access Token  is a way to provide an alternate password to authenticate to  Azure DevOps . To understand more about how to generate this token and how to utilize this, let’s follow certain steps and make a successful REST API call. You can checkout more about it on my article at Csharpcorner website.

Made debut as an International Speaker

Today, I've something good to share. Recently I was given an opportunity to talk in one of the technical conference named https://www.2020twenty.net/lightup/ , which was a fund raising event to support UNICEF in order to take a stand against COVID19 and it was organized by C# Corner and The Tech Platform.  I spoke on a topic ' Azure Bot Services Utilizing LUIS Capabilities ' which was a very wonderful experience. Hope recording of the same will be available soon.